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Exclusive Interview: RONALD D. MOORE AND THE FINAL FATE OF THE 'BATTLESTAR GALACTICA' - PART 2
Executive Producer talks more final season secrets and the future for the Science Fiction franchise
By SEAN ELLIOTT, Senior Editor
Published 7/23/2007
We’re months away from the start of the final season of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA on the SCI FI Channel, but the GALACTICA is finding Earth this season and ending a four-year journey. Also, as a supplement to this season fans can catch the 2 part special RAZOR in November dealing with the history of the Battlestar Pegasus. Series creator and Executive Producer Ron Moore filled iF MAGAZINE in on more secrets of the final season, who lives and dies, the fate of the Cylons and where he goes after BSG ends.
iF MAGAZINE: How many of the loose threads out there for the last three seasons will be resolved by the end of the fourth season?
RON MOORE: We’re certainly talking about wrapping up as many threads as we can by the end of the show. I don’t know that we can wrap up every single on by the end of the show. There are some things we might leave deliberately vague or not want to return to, but the intention is to bring some sense of closure to the major plotlines that we’ve established.
iF: Have you settled whether or not Lucy Lawless will be returning this season?
MOORE: Not yet no. It’s still under discussion.
iF: Are you going spend time with the Cylons this season like you did last season or is it just going to focus on the fleet?
MOORE: There will definitely be things in the Cylon world. In fact there will be some significant if not Earth-shattering changes that are going to be happening this season.
iF: Any word on CAPRICA as a series?
MOORE: Nope. Not a word. Everything takes its time in development.
iF: I had heard you were working on a new version of THE THING is that still in the works?
MOORE: I’m working on it. It’s a feature film not for television.
iF: Have you read the comic books and how do you feel about the direction they have taken the storyline?
MOORE: I have seen some of the early comic books. Usually I see them in galleys, I almost never see them in color. Basically, I’ve given them a lot of free reign and I made some comments early on about areas that I told them not to do because they were things we were going into on the show. By in large I let them do whatever they want.
iF: The reason I ask, is because the Boomer storyline takes place before the Pegasus shows up in season two, so I was wondering if the new RAZOR mini-series will negate the chance of that storyline fitting with the series?
MOORE: I consider them pretty much a separate universe. It’s great that they pretty much have free reign to twist plotlines in different directions and do things we haven’t done on the show. I really don’t have any expectations that they would stay in continuity with us.
iF: RAZOR is two parts airing as episodes?
MOORE: It’s two episodes. They’ll air together. Then the DVD is released the next day. It’s a unique structure. The DVD will be longer and have more footage than the on air version.
iF: As far as season four scripts have you written all the way to the end?
MOORE: Nope. We’ve done half of it; the way we usually do it. We’ve broken out into stories about half of the season. We’ve got script done up until episode eight. Then we stopped breaking stories ahead and we’ll gather the staff and discuss in detail how the second half of the season and what the finale is going to be.
iF: I’m assuming since this is the last stretch of road for the GALACTICA, that not everybody is going to make it out alive?
MOORE: That’s a good assumption. [Laughs] We’re going to take some pretty heavy losses.
iF: In season one, when they visited Stonehenge you had decided what time period you wanted them to find Earth. Have you stuck to that same goal for this season when the GALACTICA finds Earth?
MOORE: Pretty much. I maintain what we want to do, but there are some other options and I’m trying to keep an open mind. I have a general shape about how I want the show to end. We hold that out amongst ourselves as what the goal is, and then exactly what that means and exactly what each character’s fate is going to be and the precise time period that they find themselves on Earth are all things I still want to be flexible on.
iF: Once the season is done, David Eick is doing BIONIC WOMAN and you have features that you are working on, but somewhere down the road would you consider returning to BATTLESTAR?
MOORE: Things are always possible. There are no plans to do anything at the moment. One key indicator is we’ll see how RAZOR does; both on air and see what the DVD sales are. Then we can see if there is a desire to do things like that once GALACTICA has finished its run. I think there are certainly factors that work against it. One of those is the fact that once the show is wrapped, they will strike the set and it would be incredibly expensive to re-build the sets all over again; immediately after the show was over they would have to store them. Or, you could concoct a scenario where three years from now they could re-build the entire GALACTICA and do a feature film. I don’t know. My gut tells me that this is the end and we probably won’t do more GALACTICA after season four, but nobody really knows so you just have to wait and see how things develop.
iF: Are you leaving wiggle room in the story so if you wanted to continue the story you could?
MOORE: I think in terms of the narrative that takes us to the end of the series, we will bring it to a conclusion. Now, in terms of RAZOR we could do stories that go back within the earlier time periods of the series; I could see something like that. Or, we could go back to the original Cylon war. There are plenty of places in the GALACTICA universe to tell stories.
iF: Are all of the models of Cylons (i.e. Boomer) going to collide with each other by the end of the season?
MOORE: I don’t think so. Sixes and Boomers are on separate paths. There won’t be a conclave where they all meet and collide with each other.
iF: Dr. Baltar has always walked the line between being evil and being self-serving to a destructive fault. Will he cross over to completely bad this year?
MOORE: He’s been pretty bad. [Laughs] We’re going to be playing some different colors with Baltar this season, but I don’t think he’ll ever cross completely over the line. The fun of the character is that you love him and hate him and can you justify what he does in a week and can he justify what he is doing in a week. He’s always thinking he’s doing something good when he’s not.
iF: Characters like Helo still haven’t gotten too much of a back-story. Since this is the final season did you have to abandon plans to tell characters’ back-stories in favor of the single plotline of finding Earth?
MOORE: No, actually we’re still developing back-story. Quite a few of the cast; we’re learning more tidbits from their past and more about their characters along the way.
iF: Since this is the final season any more guest stars from the original series coming on for cameo roles?
MOORE: We haven’t discussed it. Richard Hatch is coming back for the season, but we haven’t discussed anybody else though.
iF: In the mini series we saw props and models in the museum in the GALACTICA, any chance of seeing more of those things in the final season…like the old model centurions?
MOORE: Yes you will.
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